A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
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Wagner Group mercenaries in Belarus remain a worrying wild card with possible consequences for the conflict and the wider region.
Machinations over the march on Moscow are continuing.
A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.
The revolt by Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and his troops put the US in an unusual situation with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
For the past few years Alexander Lukashenko has had to depend on Moscow’s help to keep him in power. Now he appears to have returned the favour.
Signs of discontent among Russian nationalists and Wagner had been growing before a column of paramilitaries began an aborted march on Moscow.
From the Arab Spring to the Belarus Awakening and the ongoing Iranian protest Women, Life, Freedom, female-centered imagery and social media are battlegrounds of resistance and oppression.
If Russia moves nuclear warheads into Belarus the political fallout could be enormous.
The IOC has an opportunity to disavow the violence and illegality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by extending the platform and status of refugee athletes to Russian and Belarusian athletes.
Since 2021, the tiny Baltic nation of Lithuania has come up against three authoritarian regimes: Belarus, China, and Russia. Its capital, Vilnius, is at the forefront of Western support for Kiev.
The Kremlin’s weapons of mass distraction are designed to keep Kyiv and allies guessing.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
Belarus is unlikely to put troops into Ukraine, but it can make life very difficult for Kyiv’s war planners.
Belarusians make up one of the most prominent contingents of foreign fighters in Ukraine. Here’s why they’re fighting and what they hope to achieve for Belarus as well as Ukraine.
While Belarus is rightly seen as a co-aggressor in Russia’s war on Ukraine, its future involvement in the conflict is open to speculation. One thing is certain: a majority of Belarusians oppose it.
Some of the key articles from our coverage of the war in Ukraine over the past week.
The benevolence shown to Belarusian exiles in 2020 has turned into hostility because of Russia’s attack on Ukraine. How is it fair to blame citizens for the actions of a regime they despise?
Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko will put a lot at risk if he decides to get fully involved in military action in Ukraine.
A co-laureate of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, the founder of the human rights centre Viasna is the fourth person in the history of the Nobel to receive this award while in prison.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Instruction in the School of Interdisciplinary Global Studies, University of South Florida
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Professor, Russian and East European History, University of Alberta
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, Aberystwyth University
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Senior Researcher at the Centre for East European and International Studies and Associate Member of Nuffield College, University of Oxford
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Senior Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen Mary University of London
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Postdoctoral research associate, University of Oxford
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Research fellow with the Centre for French Culture, University of Warsaw
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Researcher in International Politics, University of Hamburg
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PhD Fellow in Political Science, Ghent University
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor in Human Rights Law, University of Liverpool
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Teaching Fellow in Public Policy and Management, University of Birmingham
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Senior Visiting Scholar with the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University
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Einstein Professor for the Comparative Study of Democracy and Authoritarianism, Humboldt University Berlin, and Director, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); University of Oxford